Boxing

5:31 AM ET Timothy Bradley Jr. There are 17 men’s boxing divisions (not counting WBC’s new bridgerweight) that are sanctioned by the four major organizations: WBC, WBA, WBO and IBF. They range from 108 pounds to unlimited weight after 200 pounds. Some of those divisions include some of the best fighters in the world. Others

12:50 AM ET Vergil Ortiz Jr. looked across the ring on Saturday night and saw one of boxing’s bureaucratic speed bumps. In order for Ortiz to inch closer to a crack at a legitimate boxing championship, he had to first defeat Michael McKinson, who was modestly ranked by a couple of the sport’s sanctioning bodies.

7:07 PM ET Nick Parkinson Close •Reports on boxing for ESPN.co.uk, as well as several national newspapers•Has been reporting on British boxing for over 15 years•Appears on BoxNation’s Boxing Matters show Michael Conlan responded to his first professional boxing defeat by scoring three knockdowns on his way to a dominant points win over Miguel Marriaga

4:54 PM ET WBO junior middleweight champion Natasha Jonas and WBC titleholder Patricia Berghult will fight in a unification title bout on Sept. 3 in Liverpool, England. Jonas (11-2-1, 8 KO) was the first British woman boxer to compete in the Olympics and will be making the first defense of her WBO belt, which she

3:44 PM ET Sebastian Fundora and his younger sister, Gabriela, are going to be fighting on the same card as professionals for the first time in October, a source told ESPN. The fights are expected to take place on Oct. 8 at the Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, California. Opponents are yet to be

12:01 AM ET Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia — Former boxing world champion Johnny Famechon has died in Melbourne after a lengthy illness. He was 77. The Sport Australia Hall of Fame announced Famechon’s death in a statement on Thursday. Famechon was struck by a car while jogging in 1991 in Sydney, which caused him to

11:22 AM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Former heavyweight titleholder Joseph Parker and the undefeated Joe Joyce have agreed to a deal for a fight that will take place in the U.K., possibly on Sept. 24, sources told ESPN. BT Sport Box Office will televise the fight in the U.K., sources said. Despite an announcement for Parker-Joyce

7:35 AM ET Nick Parkinson Close •Reports on boxing for ESPN.co.uk, as well as several national newspapers•Has been reporting on British boxing for over 15 years•Appears on BoxNation’s Boxing Matters show After getting knocked out of the ring in a jarring defeat five months ago, Michael Conlan would have been forgiven had he chosen an

11:42 AM ET The most anticipated return of Jake Paul against Hasim Rahman Jr., the son of former heavyweight champion Hasim Rahman, was canceled on Saturday due to Rahman’s inability to make the 200-pound weight limit agreed for the fight. Rahman (12-1, 6 KOs) has competed at heavyweight throughout his professional career and last fought

11:01 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Jose Ramirez will wait a little bit longer for the opportunity to regain his WBC junior welterweight title. He scrapped plans for a vacant title fight against Jose Zepeda that was ordered by the WBC because of a conflict with his wedding in October, a spokesperson for Ramirez said in

12:55 AM ET Danny Garcia showed he might have a little left to offer in the ring. In his first fight in 19 months and in a new weight class, the former champion showed he still has the skills that made him one of boxing’s top draws. A barrage of body shots and precise punching

8:42 PM ET The scheduled Aug. 6 boxing pay-per-view card headlined by Jake Paul and Hasim Rahman Jr. has been canceled due to a weight issue with Rahman, Paul’s Most Valuable Promotions (MVP) wrote in a statement Saturday night. The event was to take place at New York’s Madison Square Garden. According to MVP’s statement,

2:50 AM ET South Africa’s Jackson Chauke claimed the ABU Flyweight title at ESPN Africa Boxing 19 with a third round TKO of Tanzanian Mustapha Mkupasi in Johannesburg on Thursday. Chauke (21W-1L-2D) landed a huge overhand left which sent Mkupasi (9W-1L-0D) to the deck midway through round three. The Tanzanian answered the count, only to

2:31 PM ET GLENDALE, Calif. — Seniesa Estrada, the WBA strawweight and WBO junior flyweight champion, has left Golden Boy and signed a multiyear deal with Top Rank. The 30-year-old is the second female fighter to sign with Top Rank, joining Mikaela Mayer, who signed a three-year contract extension earlier this year. “It’s awesome,” Estrada

7:50 AM ET The boxing schedule is filling up quickly for the second half of the year and already includes a number of interesting matchups. Anthony Joshua, with Robert Garcia now in his corner, is facing Oleksandr Usyk on Aug. 20 in a rematch for three heavyweight world titles. Is that fight a better matchup

3:21 AM ET Sabelo Ngebiyana will take on crowd favourite Mzuvukile Magwaca in a junior lightweight bout at ESPN Africa Boxing on July 28, looking to bounce back after his IBF title was taken off his hands. Ngebiyana has had a disappointing year to date, after he had to relinquish his IBF international bantamweight title

12:54 PM ET Ramla Ali will make history next month when she faces Crystal Garcia Nova as part of the first professional women’s boxing match in Saudi Arabia on the undercard of the Anthony Joshua-Oleksandr Usyk heavyweight title fight in Jeddah on Aug. 20. It’s another first for Ali, a Muslim woman born in Somalia

9:43 PM ET A boxing card in Colombia on Aug. 13 featuring three WBC title fights, headlined by bridgerweight champion Oscar Rivas’ bout against Lukasz Rozanski, has been postponed, according to his promoter, Yvon Michel. Michel said no date has been finalized for a rescheduling of the fight, which was going to be Rivas’ debut